Making KMemoryInfo useful (Re: KDE/kdelibs/kdecore)

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 20 March 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 08:54:59PM +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  Any problems with that?
>
> an obvious problem of this simple implementation is that one application
> requesting 300m will make *every* listening application try to free up
> 300m.
> this needs some arbitrating instance (either a daemon or some more
> functionality in the lib itself). also, priorities are needed, including
> dynamic priorities (e.g., lower priority when unfocused and idle).
> i think symbian has such a system.

Somehow this sounds more like the job of the OS, not the desktop env.
Ah, wait, it'll be "MemoryKit" ;-)

Alex